<p>allie, did you graduate from Saddleback HS?</p>
<p>You mean University of Saddleback East Avery? nah. transferring this year (actually having to walk this May, too...grrr @honors). </p>
<p>I went to Aliso Niguel for high school.</p>
<p>Yea i work full time and go to school and have a gf, so i barely have time to socialize at school. Besides sociability, UNLV (school i am going to now) lacks the competitveness that drives me. Without too many friends or academic motivation, I definately feel like many things that I want are missing from this school.</p>
<p>I am really looking forward to going to usc cuz im not gonna hold down a job. Im just gonna go to school and soak in the college experience. damn i cant wait...</p>
<p>it's true that a CC is not very motivating, but my motivation comes from my family. Coming home to these rotten people every day, I am very motivated to work very hard so I can get out of this hell hole. (lol).</p>
<p>Yes tis true that a cc is quite depressing because the lack of goals most people have, especially at a CCC. But I've found motivation through instead of getting an A, which is a breeze, but like try to get a off the wall perecentage. If I can't do that, I tend to help out alot of people who are stuck in the mud. But the biggest motivator is when I end up at a top tier 1 school.</p>
<p>I'm a non-traditional older student (22) at a community college. I can certainly understand how the environment doesn't exactly lend itself to hard work. At times, I feel like I'm in the 13th grade or something. The students are SO young and young-acting it's kind of absurd. Also, a lot of students are only there because their parents tell them to be there, so they don't put in the work because they're not there for themselves. Also, the professors baby the students. There are students in my CC that are functionally illiterate, but they keep on getting passed. My cultural anthropology professor went over every single question that was going to be on the mid-term, and some people still failed it. Even then, he let them take it home to get the answers from the textbook for a portion of the credit back. Sorry, I think I just went on a rant. CC isn't all that bad though. I met the best instructor I've ever had here, and it serves as a great way to get back in school-mode for older students like myself who have been out of high school for a while. Either way, it served its purpose because I have just been accepted to SU after busting my hump at CC for 3 semesters. Even though I know it will be far more difficult, I'm looking forward to moving on so that I can start my career.</p>
<p>student4u, I agree!</p>
<p>Mead13, I knew I wasn't alone. Cheers to us and to getting out of our respective hell holes!</p>
<p>I'm almost sorry I didn't go to a CC. You're acting as if having it a little bit easier is a bad thing. I'm trying to transfer out of the University of Michigan and getting a 4.0 here is damn near impossible. Think C+ median and 10% "A" grade bell curves and huge classes with bright people.</p>
<p>You guys get to apply with a 4.0 and a better reason for wanting to transfer. You have more time to take up EC's and possibly internships ect.</p>
<p>um...community college aint that easy .... 4.0's are pretty rare here too...</p>
<p>Hopefully I'll finish this semester with a 4.0</p>
<p>"You guys get to apply with a 4.0 and a better reason for wanting to transfer. You have more time to take up EC's and possibly internships ect."</p>
<p>If I correctly understanding what you are saying, I think you are wrong. I have 17 credits, a part time job which requires 15 or so hours a week, and I volunteer for about 10 hours a week- I have not seen my friends out of class in about two weeks.</p>
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<p>Point in case. I wouldn't have time for 25 hr/wk of that kind of stuff. I'm only taking 14 credits and I read/study/write for at least 3-4 hours a day. When I took 17 last semester I barely slept on weeknights.</p>
<p>The only reason I see friends is because I live with/near them and go out on the weekends.</p>
<p>yea some 4-year students think CC people have it easy...well if you are taking like 10 units maybe you do...but that can happen in a 4 year university as well...there are lots of hardworking people at CC who can go head to head (and then some) with 4-years students</p>
<p>I am taking 17 (two single credit honors course, one of which my group and I have produced a very cool projct for) and I'm still bored.</p>
<p>my organic chem teacher at a cc was high school dropout who went back to school and went to cc and eventually got a Ph.D from Caltech</p>
<p>btw I am taking 18 units and workin 10 hours/week parttime. also in phi theta kappa and computer programmers association....last week started an engineering club in my school :(</p>
<p>well I am taking 20 units and I am sure Stanford (or Cal) or wherever's scedule will be less intense.</p>
<p>Problem being i have to drive 1 hour to my CC, and my morning class is at 7:30 and my night class ends at 10</p>
<p>also I am taking all science/math/ewrt classes.</p>
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<p>You guys get to apply with a 4.0 and a better reason for wanting to transfer. You have more time to take up EC's and possibly internships ect.
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<p>i dont agree. i go to a CCC. De Anza College.</p>
<p>in the most recent edition of our campus paper, La Voz, there was a statistic that said out of all the students that had taken over 45 units, only 3% of them had 4.0s.</p>
<p>I'll be happy if there is a 10% bellcurve instead of forced 90 percent rule. </p>
<p>De Anza is overrun with highschool students who are going to MIT and Harvards and transfers who are going to MIT and harvards, so...</p>
<p>yes...work and school, work and school... i cant take it anymore... once i'm at my 4-year school i'm going to have much more fun...i cant wait</p>